Quotes about power
powerful past thinking
In just 200 tweets we can assess and identify 52 different personality traits of a customer. We ran an analysis over 500,000 people and we really nailed this. Think of providing this powerful insight to a retailer. We can see what they value, not just what they are buying. We have found a 40-45% increase in sales when you recommend upsales based on values instead of past buying behavior. Sandy Carter
powerful school quality
Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for quality. When students themselves are in charge of projects that they care about, peer pressure can become a powerful force for high standards. Sandy Berger
powerful sibling family-love
Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power. Sander Levin
power environmental important
It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.
power evil littles
Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil. Samuel Johnson
power want resistance
He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.
powerful flower writing
The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them; either to let new light in upon the mind, and open new scenes to the prospect, or to vary the dress and situation of common objects, so as to give them fresh grace and more powerful attractions, to spread such flowers over the regions through which the intellect has already made its progress, as may tempt it to return, and take a second view of things hastily passed over, or negligently regarded.
powerful thinking ideas
I think that the idea of family is a very powerful and influential and disjointed thing that will always captivate me. Sarah Polley
power possessed transformed
Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed. Wallace Stevens
power remember memento
You, Roman, remember to rule peoples with your power. -Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento Virgil
power tyrants greed
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
powerful eye men
A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes. Vincent Piazza
power games generations
The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does. Will Wright
powerful incentives hunger
Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection. Willa Cather
powerful mean power
When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power. Walter Jon Williams
powerful love-is painkillers
Love is a powerful painkiller. Walter Kirn
power firsts principles
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. Walter Lippmann
power law people
If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may be ascertained - then the people may entrust all their power to anyone, and the power of the pretender and the usurper is then legitimate. It is not to be challenged since it came originally from the sovereign people.
powerful garden atheism
Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue. Voltaire
powerful equality may
All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free
powerful greatness understanding
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
power politics unlimited
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. William Pitt
power government firsts
We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers. William Rehnquist
powerful men average
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then. William Ralph Inge
powerful symbolism half
In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time Half dead at the top. William Butler Yeats
powerful heart destiny
If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world, we can better discover that destiny from the words that have gathered up the heart's desire of the world, than from historical records, or from speculation, wherein the heart withers.
power crowns fancy
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us. Wilhelm von Humboldt
powerful character reality
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. Wilhelm Reich
power missing may
Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne. Walter Savage Landor
powerful unique thinking
I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community. Yishan Wong
powerful thinking community
All of us at reddit work here because we think that reddit is a community like none other. We think it can be a powerful force to change the world for the better.
powerful inspiration humility
Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator. Yogi Berra
powerful fluidity undecided
Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. Winston Churchill